Website meta

Here's some more information about the guts of this website.

Table of contents
  1. How this website exists
  2. Content disclaimer
  3. Accessibility
  4. "Copyright" policy

How this website exists

Kalechips is hosted by Teacake. It's written in PHP, but most of the heavy lifting is done on the blog and guestbook. I'm not good at PHP or object-oriented programming in general, so the entire thing is built like a regular static website without any fancy controllers or classes or anything. The source code for most pages looks like this:

<?php include $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . "/top.php"; ?>

Page HTML here

<?php include $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . "/bottom.php"; ?>

I handle file management with a private Git repository. It is likely never going to see the light of day because it's a giant mess.

I write the code using Notepad++ on Windows and Geany on Linux. I used to use VS Codium on Linux but it has too much extra junk for my liking.

Content disclaimer

This website was written with a teenage/adult audience in mind. It doesn't contain any explicit adult content, but expect profanity and the occasional discussion of "mature" topics (violence, sex, etc). I generally won't include content warnings for specific topics, so please use your own discretion when you're deciding what to look at.

Any opinions I express here are only representative of myself and shouldn't be taken to be objective fact. I'm not unbiased, and I can be wrong about things. You're making a terrible mistake if you try to refer to me as an authority on basically anything!

Accessibility

I do my best to meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines at the AA/AAA level. If anything isn't working the way I'm claiming it is or if you have any suggestions, please let me know.

  • This website works on any screen resolution (including mobile and when zoomed in and out) and any modern browser (in theory, it should still work on outdated browsers with some aesthetic compromises)
  • This website is entirely navigable via keyboard and/or screen reader
  • This website doesn't use Javascript
  • This website uses system fonts in addition to Atkinson Hyperlegible loaded as a web font
  • This website has light and dark modes that respond to device/browser settings
  • This website should (generally) work in browser reader mode, but there's no universal standard for reader mode implementation. Send me a note with your browser and whatever problem you're seeing if something wonky happens.

"Copyright" policy

I don't believe in copyright or intellectual property on principle, so it would be hypocritical of me to license this website in a way that endorses either of those. This website is licensed under the GNU General Public License, which effectively lets you do whatever you want as long as you're willing to give other people the same freedom. You can read more specifics about that on the license page.